Feb 14 2008
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Leopard Manpath
If you use MacPorts quite a bit like I do then you sometimes need to read a manpage for a MacPorts installed application. Unfortunately MacPorts doesnt add the /opt/local/share/man path to MANPATH so your man command won’t find them.
The solution as it seems it very easy though at first glance its a bit complicated to decide where you should add this new path. This is because you’ve got three choices, /etc/man.conf, /etc/manpaths and /etc/manpaths.d/. Its pretty much up to you but I opted to do it this way.
$ sudo bash
Password:
bash-3.2# echo "/opt/local/share/man" > /etc/manpaths.d/MacPorts
base-3.2# exit
$
now close your Terminal and open a new one and do
$ echo $MANPATH
/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/opt/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man
and you should get something like that. Ahhh, much better. It even beats X11 to the punch but thats most likely down to the alphabet.
